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side by side in the mountains in the valleys basically wherever the taliban are hiding well that is now changing as of this spring it's afghan soldiers that will be in the lead they will be the ones initiating the combat with the taliban while the american soldiers will only be here to advise. system when they are requested to oh great i guess we can all just disregard the strategic agreement between obama and karzai over the extended u.s. presence in afghanistan through twenty twenty four which conveniently is not mentioned by the corporate media i wonder why but the fact of the matter is that the u.s. military operates around the world and it's a more widespread than ever before it comes to the us military footprint it seems that the us has its boots eyes ears and drones on the ground in almost every country in the world back in two thousand and eleven when congressman ron paul famously said that the us is under great threat and no not because of our freedoms but rather because quote we occupy so many countries one hundred and thirty countries we have nine hundred bases around the
side by side in the mountains in the valleys basically wherever the taliban are hiding well that is now changing as of this spring it's afghan soldiers that will be in the lead they will be the ones initiating the combat with the taliban while the american soldiers will only be here to advise. system when they are requested to oh great i guess we can all just disregard the strategic agreement between obama and karzai over the extended u.s. presence in afghanistan through twenty twenty four...
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it's now a stable place with just today ten civilians were reported killed in a nato strike targeting taliban insurgents only four militants were killed it's also rated one of the most corrupt countries in the world and while obama spent most of his speech talking about the economy and taxes domestically he failed to mention that so far the u.s. has invested over one hundred billion dollars in reconstruction and that this year it's expected another thirty billion dollars could be spent in aid and that's despite red flags coming from a committee monitoring aid that there's no way of ensuring all this money is going to the right place or whose hands in fact the cash is falling into the watchdog also saying it's too dangerous in many places in afghanistan to safely observe what's happening sounds pretty chaotic to me but let's try to find out more we can now cross live to kabul we're joined by former and people at a collateral list diode sultanzoy thanks for being with us i want to start with obama saying that the main goal is to ensure chaos doesn't come back to afghanistan if we analyze that i
it's now a stable place with just today ten civilians were reported killed in a nato strike targeting taliban insurgents only four militants were killed it's also rated one of the most corrupt countries in the world and while obama spent most of his speech talking about the economy and taxes domestically he failed to mention that so far the u.s. has invested over one hundred billion dollars in reconstruction and that this year it's expected another thirty billion dollars could be spent in aid...
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military has the losing the propaganda war in afghanistan and that's of course thanks to the taliban's use of national messaging so how is the taliban really outsmarting us in this instance and how can we really be doing better. well you know one of the major concerns that critics have been talking about is the reason that u.s. soldiers are being outsmarted on the ground is just due to a lack of basic knowledge of culture and local tradition and language even and you know in terms of the losing the propaganda war of course this is something that's been a major concern and something that the u.s. has been criticized for largely because of the failures iraq and afghanistan going on for so long you know the latest examples are of course the green on blue attacks where allied afghan forces on the ground would basically turn their backs on u.s. soldiers because of this discontent in the way u.s. soldiers have been acting on the ground because of the length of the war being fought and really losing. any sort of kind of positive hope in terms of the the war is wrapping up so how the u.s. is g
military has the losing the propaganda war in afghanistan and that's of course thanks to the taliban's use of national messaging so how is the taliban really outsmarting us in this instance and how can we really be doing better. well you know one of the major concerns that critics have been talking about is the reason that u.s. soldiers are being outsmarted on the ground is just due to a lack of basic knowledge of culture and local tradition and language even and you know in terms of the losing...
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the province of war doc is has been very volatile for a very long time when the taliban are active there so this could also be. you know some kind of impersonate of u.s. forces or are the like like what has happened there before but i think the wardak province is you know the family is strong the place is been volatile and i think they're kind of tired as well as most afghans having u.s. forces going in out of people's houses that and comment karzai president karzai needs to take care of his own situation. you know last week president karzai banned afghan forces from calling in nato air strikes in residential areas do you think couples trying to show that it's ready and willing to take over now that foreign troops are preparing to pull out. well i think he's in it yes i think definitely definitely president karzai is trying to make a statement in fact they haven't come to an agreement yet they you know they're they're still a little i'm sure power play going on between the u.s. and the president as to who's going to stay who's going to be in charge you know what kind of numbers they want
the province of war doc is has been very volatile for a very long time when the taliban are active there so this could also be. you know some kind of impersonate of u.s. forces or are the like like what has happened there before but i think the wardak province is you know the family is strong the place is been volatile and i think they're kind of tired as well as most afghans having u.s. forces going in out of people's houses that and comment karzai president karzai needs to take care of his...
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humanitarian aid in areas that are affected by militant fighters and terrorist groups and groups like the taliban that's down from seventy two percent in two thousand and nine so already even with the drone deployments as they are it's having a very adverse impact on public opinion and in affected areas like pakistan now if these aircraft carriers are for drones are put to use what would what happens if you use existing drone bases do you think that one day they're going to be obsolete . you know it's definitely hard to predict you know this technology still in development i think it's likely that there still will be you know probably some drone bases in operation but by that same token if you can reduce the need for these drone bases like as an example ones in afghanistan that we operate in pakistan out of kind of the you know opposite end of that war where we go into pakistan from afghanistan actually with with these drones you know we might there might and i think there will be a real reduction of these bases and that will give us more room to operate with even you know greater flexibility tha
humanitarian aid in areas that are affected by militant fighters and terrorist groups and groups like the taliban that's down from seventy two percent in two thousand and nine so already even with the drone deployments as they are it's having a very adverse impact on public opinion and in affected areas like pakistan now if these aircraft carriers are for drones are put to use what would what happens if you use existing drone bases do you think that one day they're going to be obsolete . you...
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that ten civilians were killed in a nato strike targeting taliban insurgents now while obama spent most of his speech talking about the economy and taxes he failed to mention that so far the u.s. has invested over one hundred billion dollars in reconstruction of afghanistan and that this year it's expected another thirty billion could be spent in aid as well this as the afghan state is rated one of the most corrupt in the world despite red flags from watchdogs monitoring the aid directly given to the government there's no way of ensuring where all this money is going if it's going to the right place whose hands that cash is falling into watchdog also saying it's too dangerous in many places across afghanistan to safely observe what's happening before more and. says some have become very rich including western officials well most afghans have been left with nothing many countries thrive on this war they make money there in goes their un people others who are lined up and making fat salaries and while the life of afghan ordinary afghans have not changed we of course we have had some thing
that ten civilians were killed in a nato strike targeting taliban insurgents now while obama spent most of his speech talking about the economy and taxes he failed to mention that so far the u.s. has invested over one hundred billion dollars in reconstruction of afghanistan and that this year it's expected another thirty billion could be spent in aid as well this as the afghan state is rated one of the most corrupt in the world despite red flags from watchdogs monitoring the aid directly given...
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attack the incident happened close to the point he's done so many autonomy's tribal region the strong taliban and al qaeda presence. but first man now convicted over america's torture program is now on call waiting to start a thirty month prison sentence but decorated cia veteran john kiriakou played no part in the interrogations but was instead convicted over leaks after growing washington's then secret program wide open speaking to r.t. he told us of just what it is he's being punished for. first of all my case was not about leaking my case was about torture when i blew the whistle on torture in december of two thousand and seven the justice to department here in the united states began investigating me and never stopped investigating me until they were able to patch together. charge and force me into taking a plea agreement and i'll add another thing to when i took the plea in october of last year the judge said that she thought the plea was was fair and appropriate but once the courtroom was packed full of reporters last friday she decided that it was not long enough and if she had had th
attack the incident happened close to the point he's done so many autonomy's tribal region the strong taliban and al qaeda presence. but first man now convicted over america's torture program is now on call waiting to start a thirty month prison sentence but decorated cia veteran john kiriakou played no part in the interrogations but was instead convicted over leaks after growing washington's then secret program wide open speaking to r.t. he told us of just what it is he's being punished for....
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drones killed three militants in pakistan's taliban controlled region of north waziristan and by militant i mean the term that the white house uses for any human being blown to pieces by a u.s. missile not only has the perpetual use of drones over pakistan yemen somalia killed countless innocent civilians but the operations are planting the seeds of resentment in the us terrorism against the u.s. among the civilian populations of these countries so what the whole day is right around the corner let's talk about what's on president obama's wish list this year my guess is that it's an upgrade of his favorite toy killer unmanned robots which is why i like to call president obama the drone carrying today's hash tag is officially drone king a phrase i coined on the show that's picking up some steam in the social media world so keep throwing that into the twitter verse john brennan's nickname is the assassination czar for god's sake and this is the guy who is ushering this country into the next phase of the war on terror so because it will be stuck with this guy at least until he's mired in a se
drones killed three militants in pakistan's taliban controlled region of north waziristan and by militant i mean the term that the white house uses for any human being blown to pieces by a u.s. missile not only has the perpetual use of drones over pakistan yemen somalia killed countless innocent civilians but the operations are planting the seeds of resentment in the us terrorism against the u.s. among the civilian populations of these countries so what the whole day is right around the corner...